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How Climate Change Will Shift the World’s Cities http://www.climatecentral.org/news/global-cities-climate-change-21584

From comparisons of our past, our planet has seemingly risen in temperature each summer. This problem will only begin to worsen if we keep on adding to the harmful carbon pollution, and the majority of effects will hit cities the hardest. Something called the "Urban Heat Island Effect", along with the constantly growing population, has proven to increase the temperature of cities up to 14 degrees hotter than the open country counterparts. With this, extremely harmful temperatures may be hitting our cities sooner than we think, especially since 54% of our population lives in the cities and is projected to rise to 2.5 billion more people by 2050.

I order to help prevent such a problem from arriving so early, there are multiple things we can do to help the environment. The first solution starts with limiting vehicle usage by riding public transportation or carpooling. This , in turn leads to less pollution and is more helpful towards our environment and the atmosphere. Energy usage also plays a vital roll, because saving electricity limits the coal usage for making energy in the first place. So, to prevent the event of rising temperatures in the cities, the people must first take a look at their own actions and reduce their ecological footprint.

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